"I am a physics student in Garching and spent two semesters abroad in Sendai in northern Japan through TUMexchange. The cultural highlight for me there was the Aoba Matsuri in May, one of the city's biggest festivals, where thousands of people parade through the streets in groups dancing to traditional instruments."
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Japanese is spoken by about 127 million people. A distinctive feature of Japanese is its complex writing system. It consists of multiple writing systems: Kanji (漢字) comes from the Chinese writing system, whereas Hiragana (平仮名 or ひらがな) and Katakana (片仮名 or カタカナ) are syllabaries, or phonetic writing systems. In the Japanese courses at the TUM Language Center, you can study up to level B2, where you will learn Hiragana and Katakana and approximately 600 Kanji.
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TUMtandem registration winter semester
We offer Japanese courses from level A1.1 to B1 following the CEFR.
There is also communication courses at A2 or B1 level.
Not every course may be offered every semester.
Intensive courses (course levels may vary) take place during the semester break in spring and fall.
The intensive courses take place over a shorter period of time, but have more training units per week than the courses during the semester. The number of ECTS and the workload is therefore the same as for the semester-long courses.
Current dates and registration deadlines can be found on our homepage.
You can find a complete overview of our course program in TUMonline.
Would you like to make contact with other TUM students or employees and at the same time improve your language skills in a flexible and practical way? At TUMtandem we will find a tandem partner for you within TUM and support your joint learning process. More information on TUMtandem
TUM maintains a strategic partnership with the University of Tokyo. Each semester, as part of the TUM-UT Tandem Program, more than 50 online tandem pairs are formed, in which participants learn each other’s target language in a tailored, individual format. This program is also integrated into the course Japanese A2 Communication (winter semester). In addition, in the summer semester, the course Japanese B2 Communication takes place, in which students from both universities participate online and exchange ideas on various current topics in multiple languages (English/Japanese).
In summer 2025, a new collaboration with the Institute of Science Tokyo was launched, combining an online course with a subsequent practical week in Tokyo. Sixteen TUM students (Japanese learners at level A2) took part, and together with ST students, they experienced various activities in Tokyo from September 1 to 5.
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